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AN INTRODUCTION TO RHODE ISLAND’S

College Access and Persistence Programs

Essential Question: What do we know about historically underserved populations on RI public college campuses and recent efforts to support them?

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RI's public colleges expand efforts to support "historically underserved" students

Nationally, as in Rhode Island, certain groups of students have been disproportionately under-represented on college campuses. Minority youth, students with special needs and especially those who've been raised in poverty find that college is out of reach for them. This story examines the new programs that RI's three public colleges have recently implemented, building on existing efforts. While they're new, are they beginning to have a positive impact? If so, what seems to be working?

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

Who is enrolling?

The Class of 2012

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

College Enrollments

% any postsecondary enrollment % no known enrollment 60 40 20

Free/ Reduced Price Lunch Minority Core City Male Chronically Absent IEP English Language Learner

Composition of graduating class

% of class in each group

48% 31.5% 31.2% 49.3% 43% 20.4% 8.3%

Real students facing real challenges

“My mother never spoke to me about college specifically until my brother entered high school. And even then she never spoke about the logistics.” “When I got to CCRI I was terrified. With all the deadlines and emails I was quickly overwhelmed. There was no one around to help me.” “I didn't really feel prepared for college once I started all of my classes with different students. I questioned the way I learned in high school and compared it to how I would learn in college.”

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

Who we serve

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

100 80 60 40 20 College Crusades College Visions Connect to College (C2C) CCRI Learning for Life (L4L) RIC Project Recruit & Educate Local At‐risk Adults & Youth (RELAAY) URI

Pre-college Community Partners College Based Programs

Free/Reduced Lunch Core City School

% of Students

100 80 60 40

Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 C2C (CCRI) L4L (RIC) RELAAY (URI)

20

Strong partnerships

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

Participation of Students from Community Partners (Year 1 and Year 2)

College Crusade Students College Visions Students

100 80 60 40 20

C2C, L4L, & RELAAY Non-Participant Peers All Remaining Students

Year 1: Grade Point Average

3.0 to 4.0 2.0 to 3.0 1.0 to 2.0 Less than 1.0 No or Unknown GPA

25.85 55.38 17.85 31.63 42.09 41.09 40.74 18.6 13.38

2.33 6.36 1.92 1.87

% of Students

Academic successes

Year 1: Average Credit Completion Ratio

100 80 60 40 20

C2C, L4L, & RELAAY Non-Participant Peers All Remaining Students

85.99 63.2 78.34

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

Persistence

Persistence to a Second Semester and a Second Year

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs

% of Students

C2C, L4L, & RELAAY All Remaining Students Non-Participant Peers

100 80 60 40

96% 88% 81% 87% 77% 59%

FALL 2012 Into SPRING 2013 Into FALL 2013

Clearly, partnerships among college access and postsecondary support programs successfully smooth students’ transition to college and coordinating comprehensive services while in college enhances their chances for success.

• Coordinating comprehensive systems of support, especially during the vulnerable transition from high school to college,

needs good longitudinal data. Such data will help all partners work together to achieve their common goals for student success.

• Already further study is needed to identify which core services and institutional policies are having the greatest impact on

these students.

• Sustaining the program-supports over the course of some student's college careers will be essential to ensure that they

reach completion.

• Since many more students could benefit from these comprehensive services, expanding and sustaining the programs’

success will require finding other sources of funding.

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Take-aways and recommendations

An Introduction to Rhode Island’s College Access and Persistence Programs